Section 365 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 365 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Execution of warrants outside State of issue. It provides as follows:

(1) Where a Court, a Judge, a Magistrate or a Justice of the Peace of any State has in accordance with this Law, issued a warrant for the arrest of a person, a Magistrate of another State being a State in or on his way to which the person against whom the warrant has been issued is or is supposed to be, shall,
on being satisfied that the warrant was issued by the Court, Judge, Magistrate or Justice of the Peace, make an endorsement on the warrant in the form, or to the effect of the form, in the forms authorising its execution in that other State.

(2) A warrant so endorsed is sufficient authority to the person bringing the warrant, to all Police Officers and persons to whom the warrant is directed and to all Police Officers in that other State to execute the warrant in that other State, to arrest the person against whom the warrant was issued and to bring that person before a Magistrate of that State.

(3) The Magistrate before whom the person is brought shall—
(a) by warrant under his hand, order the person to be returned to the State in which the original warrant was issued and, for that purpose, to be delivered into the custody of the person bringing the warrant or of a Police Officer or other person to whom the warrant was originally directed; or

(b) where the offence charged is an offence in respect of which he may admit a person to bail, admit the person to bail, on such recognisances as he thinks fit, on condition that the person appears at such time (not exceeding one month after the date of the order admitting him to bail) and at such place in the State in which the original warrant was issued as the Magistrate specifies to answer the charge or complaint or to be dealt with according to Law.

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